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Summary: Take it for what it's worth
Review: The book is a good chuckle for a couple 30 minutes rides on the exercize bike.It's written in a very serious an authoritative tone. It writes about what the esteemed panel recommends for alternatives to sh*t and f*ck. It talks about the grammer of swearing. Seriously. Will it really teach anyone to swear? No - you should know this by now. Is it really aimed at teaching someone swearing jargon? No on that front too. Is it good humor for someone who asks their friends to pull their finger? Absolutely!
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Summary: Take it for what it's worth
Review: The book is a good chuckle for a couple 30 minutes rides on the exercize bike. It's written in a very serious an authoritative tone. It writes about what the esteemed panel recommends for alternatives to sh*t and f*ck. It talks about the grammer of swearing. Seriously. Will it really teach anyone to swear? No - you should know this by now. Is it really aimed at teaching someone swearing jargon? No on that front too. Is it good humor for someone who asks their friends to pull their finger? Absolutely!
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Summary: F*ucking Awesome
Review: This book is F*cking amazing! I couldn't stop myself from laughing. Anyone who likes to use swear words must read this book. The fine panel of experts describe it best when they state,"we swear for one reason and one reason only, because it's the best F*cking way to communicate." This is the funnist book i've read in months.
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Summary: Very funny book
Review: This book is outrageously funny. I don't think it will make Oprah's book club. But it was just the right gift for 4 of my friends.
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Summary: Get this great f*cking book now!
Review: This book is really f*cking funny. Stephen King, who really knows how to swear, called it a "Great f*cking book." It doesn't have any thing like #$, $@#$, and %? in it, only real swears. Only a high school freshman who didn't dare to swear on the internet or a Puritan crank pretending to be one would try to persuade someone not to read this book. . Read this outrageously funny book. Buy it or steal it, but read it if you want to laugh your butt off
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Summary: Finally, a witty approach to swearing
Review: This is the first book on swearing I've ever read where the author seems to have fun. It's very funny and also informative. A great way to test somebody's sense of humor is give them a copy of this book and then watch their reaction. Every time I started reading it, I fell off the couch. By page 20, I had done myself permanent injury, but, by gum, it was worth it!
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Summary: Funniest book I've read in years.
Review: This is the funniest book I've read in years. This year I'm giving copies to all my friends with open minds (and to a few narrow-minded people who need to lighten up). I picked up some great expressions I'd never heard before and scored 100% on the final exam at the end of the book, which is a classic in itself. The dialogues are hilarious, just the thing for aspiring actors to use as practice exercises. I'd love to see the author on "Politically Incorrect." He'd fit right in. Maybe they'll make a movie of the book. After all, they made a movie about "Pi." If they ever did make the movie, Bill Murray would be perfect as Sterling Johnson. I don't know how many times I've picked this book up and read passages aloud to friends. They are always delighted, although some pretend to be shocked. It's a gem.
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Summary: More entertaining than informative.
Review: This little collection of profanity isn't quite what I expected. The English language is so full of inconsistency, irregularity, and paradox, that I was prepared for a work ridiculing our Puritannical attempts to purge it. The language has a perverse life of its own; anyone who presumes to control it will not only fail but look foolish in doing so. Instead, Johnson takes a quite literal (though no less humorous) ESL (English as a Second Langage) approach, offering the sexual and scatalogical words that any stranger to the language will require to understand it (including the "unsayable" words that once got George Carlin a night in a Milwaukee jail). Had he expanded the lexicon to include some of the "taboo" sexist, racist, ethnic, group-specific words (and their euphemistic substitutes) of the present-day politically-correct environment, Johnson's little book could have taken on a note of provocative satire. One quibble: In his introduction Johnson uses a quote by Shakespeare's Caliban ("The Tempest") to support his project. Bad choice. Shakespeare never lost an opportunity to expose the language's obscene possibilities, but the quotation is meant to ridicule Caliban for assuming that's all language is good for.
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Summary: More entertaining than informative.
Review: This little collection of profanity isn't quite what I expected. The English language is so full of inconsistency, irregularity, and paradox, that I was prepared for a work ridiculing our Puritannical attempts to purge it. The language has a perverse life of its own; anyone who presumes to control it will not only fail but look foolish in doing so. Instead, Johnson takes a quite literal (though no less humorous) ESL (English as a Second Langage) approach, offering the sexual and scatalogical words that any stranger to the language will require to understand it (including the "unsayable" words that once got George Carlin a night in a Milwaukee jail). Had he expanded the lexicon to include some of the "taboo" sexist, racist, ethnic, group-specific words (and their euphemistic substitutes) of the present-day politically-correct environment, Johnson's little book could have taken on a note of provocative satire. One quibble: In his introduction Johnson uses a quote by Shakespeare's Caliban ("The Tempest") to support his project. Bad choice. Shakespeare never lost an opportunity to expose the language's obscene possibilities, but the quotation is meant to ridicule Caliban for assuming that's all language is good for.
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Summary: Now, THIS is funny!
Review: Wow! I laughed from start to finish. I literally had to leave the room, cause it was embarrassing to be standing there, laughing out loud all by myself. The author has done an amazing job, not only of amassing an astounding number of cuss words and phrases, but of capturing the true essence of each, in a succinct -- and very funny -- way. This book makes a great gift for any friend with a sense of humor!
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